Michael A. De Leon is a graphic designer by day, but wears many hats in his off time. In 2004, after several years of covering the Spurs, he started Project Spurs, a Spurs team fansite as an outlet to provide content to Spurs fans, while continuing to write for himself and learning the ins and outs of online publishing and web design. He has since built a writing team and started a popular weekly Spurs podcast called the Spurscast.

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Lorbek: Choosing FC Barcelona over Spurs was easy

The San Antonio Spurs need size. Aside from Tim Duncan and Tiago Splitter, the team doesn’t have much to contend with the likes of big teams like the Lakers, Grizzlies and Thunder.

So far during the offseason, the Spurs seemed to have stocked up on guards but not much as far as help in the frontcourt – much to the chagrin of Spurs fans.

However, once the offseason began, there were rumors Slovenian big man Erazem Lorbek was heading to San Antonio to join the team heading into next season but in the end, Spanish club Regal Barcelona made him a lucrative offer he couldn’t refuse and chose to stay overseas.